2026 Series - Welcome Back
Meet us at The Colonial Thursdays at 7:00 PM, July 9, July 23, August 6, August 20, September 3
The 2026 White Mountain Jewish Film Festival returns to the Colonial Theatre this summer for four films focusing on the Jewish experience in America, Israel, and throughout the world. Filmgoers can again enjoy the magic of watching great theatrical presentations on the big screen of Bethlehem’s historic Colonial Theatre, one of the oldest continuously operating movie theatres in the country - and one of the safest with state of the art air conditioning and filtration systems!
As always, your ticket includes our festival’s famous patio parties beginning at 6:00 p.m. with complimentary refreshments and an assortment of beverages. At 6:30 p.m. the evening’s guest speaker will introduce the film and then stay for a Q & A as the house lights go on at the end of each film. We were grateful to receive rave reviews of our selection of last year’s WMJFF films and guest speakers.
Movie Times - All Films:
Box Office Opens: 5:30 PM | Patio Opens: 6:00 PM | Guest Speaker: 6:30 PM | Film: 7:00PM
Tickets are sold at the door or Purchase online (coming soon)
General Admission: $10.00 | BHC and JFNH Members: $9.00 | Season Pass (5 Films): $40.00
July 9 - For the Love of A Woman (2025)
Mili Avital (Stargate), Uri Pfeffer (Hacksaw Ridge), Moni Moshonov (Late Marriage, America), Menashe Noy (Gett, Tehran) star in a sweeping English speaking saga based on the beloved novel of Israeli author Meir Shalev, The Loves Of Judith.
1970. Esther, a tormented American in her forties, receives a letter after the death of her mother: she must find a woman who lived in the 30s in Palestine and keeps a secret about her life. Esther begins her search in Israel helped by Zayde, a university professor with a particular background.
1930. A village of settlers, the atmosphere of a new world. Moshe, widower with two children, hires a woman to help him. The arrival of Yehudit changes the life of Moshe and two other men: Yaakov, a romantic farmer, and Globerman, a cattle dealer. An exciting and tragic love story begins.
By tying together the threads that bind past and present, Esther and Zayde will discover a shocking truth.
Writer-director Paul Mazursky's transparently autobiographical Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a film of considerable charm and appeal. His alter ego in this case is Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker), an aspiring actor in his early twenties who leaves his Brooklyn home, kvetching mother (Shelley Winters), and hen-pecked pop (Mike Kellin) and moves to Greenwich Village, a few subway stops and several worlds away. This is the Village of the mid-'50s; Dylan and the folkies wouldn't take root there for years, and even the beat poet scene wasn't yet in full bloom. But it was the hippest place in town, filled with counter-culture artist types, and Larry, an aspiring actor, settles right in, hooking up with a gang of pals and a foxy girlfriend Sarah (Ellen Greene) almost immediately and then dealing with life's various triumphs and vicissitudes. Baker, who made only a couple more films before dying of cancer in 1982 (Greenwich Village was released in '76), is fine in the central role; an actor playing an actor, he has a field day with the rapid-fire repartee and shtick Mazursky writes for him (Greene would go on to play Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, but it's the young supporting actors, notably Chris Walken, Jeff Goldblum, and Lois Smith, who would have the more stellar careers). Overall, the film is smart and well-observed, with ample humor and warmth, along with an improvisational feel. It also tends to play very real, especially the scenes involving the two young lovers; only Winters's scenery-chewing Jewish stereotype gets tiresome. T
Watch the trailer here
August 6 - Next Stop Greenwich Village (1976)
It's January 1942 in Paris and art dealer Robert Klein is making a killing. For this loyal Frenchman, the Nazi occupation is a unique business opportunity, since Jews fleeing the country are unlikely to haggle over their heirlooms' worth. But when a Jewish newspaper turns up on Klein's doorstep, his comfortable life begins to unravel. It seems there's another Robert Klein, a suspected Jewish Resistance fighter, who's content to live in the shadows and let his namesake take the fall. As Klein's investigation of his double progresses, the mood shifts from Hitchcock to Kafka and proving his innocence becomes less important than confronting his doppelganger...
July 23 - Mr. Klein (1976)
Unspoken follows the story of Noam, a closeted teenager in a religious community who discovers that he might not be alone. When he finds a love letter written to his grandfather by another man before the Holocaust, he sets out to find this mysterious person and uncover his grandfather's identity as well as his own.
Watch the trailer here
August 20 - Unspoken (2024)
Jack Lemmon won an Oscar. for this dramatic performance, considered by many to be his finest. Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. He'll juggle the books, supply women for clients... and even set fire to his own dress manufacturing factory. He is drawn to an America when life not only had values and heroes, it all seemed worth living and building. But Harry is frightened to break away from the emptiness of his seemingly successful life.
Watch the trailer here
September 3 - Save the Tiger (1973)
Other Film Series
We have saved our past film series logs for your knowledge base. If you need assistance finding a past film or have suggestions for future seasons, please email Artistic Director Dorothy Goldstone: dorothygoldstone@gmail.com